Berlin Berlin Crisis and First Peacetime Draft Beginnings
The piece outlines the Berlin crisis with Gen. Lucius D. Clay and Ambassador Murphy briefing President Truman as the U S pledges to stay in Berlin while seeking peaceful avenues. It notes reinforced U S air forces and questions about Soviet aims. It also details the first peacetime draft schedule with birth-year registration dates starting August 30 and September 19 1950. The piece mentions Truman's campaign kickoff and third party dynamics in the upcoming election season.
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Russia
Berlin
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Germany
Robert Murphy
Clay
Tremae
Marshall
John Aoor Ond
United States
Eet
Europe
Kremlin
Eee Salvatara
Congress
Henry Wallina
Fielding L. Wright
Mississippi
Sere, Sermene, Sree
Alabama
Truman
Food Stores Lead Retail Dollar Share After War
Department of commerce analysts report food stores capture a larger retail dollar share than any other business. Stores show improved performance since the war, taking in about 27.6 cents per dollar, compared with 16.4 cents in 1940.
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Department of Commerce
Bright Sayings Of Oldsters Show Quotes From Leaders
A collection of quotes by Dorothy Kenyon Winston Churchill and Arthur W. Radford presented as pithy old sayings. The remarks touch on women's brains unions Communism Russia and military leadership.
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Dorothy Kenyon
New York City
U. S
United Nations’ Commission On Status of Women
C Sherman
Russia
Ivan the Terrible
Winston Churchill
Arthur W. Radford
Naval Operations
Crackdown on Reds Signals Broad Subversion Fears
A U S grand jury in New York indicted 12 Communist leaders for conspiring to overthrow the government. Separately the State Department accused several hundred foreign agents of using the United Nations to mask subversive activity, with UN staff nationality notes showing 1,463 foreigners among 2,944 staff. The piece also discusses straw use in paper production and GI Bill veterans’ benefits totals.
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New York
U. S
Tom C. Clark
William Z. Foster
U. S&s
Benjamin Davis
New York City
John Gates
The
Daily Worker
Communist National Board
United Nations
State Department
Senate
Robert C. Alexander
Department
Visa Commission
U. N
Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture Laboratory
Peoria
Ask Me Another General Quiz Highlights
Quiz questions cover monuments quips and signs. Answers note Washington Monument height Donald Ducks first appearance and a May naming controversy with Maia and Majeres theories. The piece mixes trivia and a brief World Bank encyclopedia reference on May’s etymology.
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Donald Duck
World Bank
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Bill Schoentgen
WNU
Josh Sergeant
Sam
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Murry
Dors
OUR Guides
Asewer
Pussie
Oeo
Washington National Monument
Buena Vista
Lal
California
Sunkist
Romuater
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